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From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (Quaestor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 6 Nov 90 22:54:22 GMT
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In article <1990Nov6.212848.10254@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes:
>You want wordprocessing, you have WriteNow, WordPerfect, TeX, FrameMaker,
>and Quark Xpress is in the works.  You also have a laser printer at 400
>DPI (i.e., 75% denser resolution than a 300 DPI printer) for a fraction of
>the price that you'll find for Mac laser printers.  The NeXT laser printer
>LIST price is $1700-1800 by the way.
  It's about time that someone dragged this up.  Sure, the NeXt printer has
better resolution than Macs and it's cheaper, but the price difference is not
because NeXT thinks everyone should have a laser printer, but because it is
a dumb printer.  It relies on the PostScript interpreter in the NeXt computer
itself.  All Mac laser printers have their own CPU and can be interfaced with
a wide variety of machines.
  I'm sure by now that there is a way that you can hook the NeXT printer up
to others, but I'm just saying that you can't compare NeXT laser printers to
Mac laser printers because there is more inside of a IINTX than a NeXT
printer.
  Also, the new Personal LaserWriter NT is not that more expensive than a that
price for the NeXT printer.